Powerarchiver starts faster with UPX
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Can anyone confirm this?
If you compress the powerarc.exe with the EXE packer UPX, Powerarchiver starts much faster.
Try it yourself
Download
http://upx.sourceforge.net/download/upx125w.zipunpack it.
then drag your powerarc.exe from your Powerarchiver directory to the upx.exe. Make a backup of your powerarc.exe before doing this.
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Probably it stats faster (I cannot confirm this) - but there is another problem. Program compressed with UPX uses more IS-USE memory than uncompressed program.
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I can live with that, I have 512MB Ram installed. So in my case the speed improvement is more precious than the RAM loss ;)
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Sure, but we always have to think there are people still runing on Windows 9x with 16 MB of RAM in average (for those old configurations);)